Eddie Constantine

1917 - 1993  (75 years)    Has no ancestors and no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Eddie Constantine
  Relationship	with Francis Fox
  Born	29 Oct 1917	Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Feb 1993	Wiesbaden, Hessen, D
  Person ID	I373664	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2002

  
  

  Family 1	Helene Mussel
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F148289	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Edith Piaff,   b. 19 Dec 1915,   d. 11 Oct 1963  (Age 47 years)
  Married	1950
  Last Modified	8 Apr 2002
  Family ID	F148275	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Born - 29 Oct 1917 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California Died - 25 Feb 1993 - Wiesbaden, Hessen, D  = Link to Google Earth
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  Iconic American-born actor and singer of international films since the 1950s. Born in L.A. to Russian immigrant parents, Constantine studied voice in Vienna. He returned to the USA where his singing career wavered and he found work as a film extra. Constantine first achieved fame in Paris where he launched a successful career as a popular singer under the tutelage of Edith Piaf. On screen from 1953, his tough guy manner was put to good use in French imitations of Bogart films, several of which featured Peter Cheyney's no-nonsense, hard-hitting private detective, Lemmy Caution. In 1965 Jean-Luc Godard appropriated both Constantine and the Caution character for "Alphaville", a futuristic, parodic homage to the detective genre. The tough guys the craggy-faced Constantine played were ideals derived from the already stylized and ritualized world of G-men and private eyes found in American movies. Filmmakers of the New German Cinema resurrected Constantine and his persona; notably Rainer Werner Fassbinder cast him as the laconic star of the film-within-the-film in "Beware of a Holy Whore" (1970). Constantine also appeared in a good number of German television dramas in the 70s and 80s and, late in life, reprised his most famous role in Godard's "Germany Year 90 Nine Zero" (1991).